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ZQUERY
By selfcompiler, 10 years ago, In English

Hii I am trying to solve this problem http://www.spoj.com/problems/ZQUERY/ after thinking so many days i am not able to come up with efficient solution ,would any one like to suggest some idea, how to solve this ?

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10 years ago, # |
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Obviously, you can sort the queries to solve the problem offline and use prefix sums to covert the question to "longest subarray with S[l] = S[r], L ≤ l ≤ r ≤ R.

Then, you can increase R and keep the answers for all L; it's just a matter of updating these answers when R is incremented. It can be done in .

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    10 years ago, # ^ |
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    @Xellos Thanks , can you explain more how to solve efficiently to find the longest subarray with S[l]=S[r] ,L<=l<=r<=R,

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    9 years ago, # ^ |
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    can you please explain the part keep answer for all L?

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First we use this Mo's algorithm to sort Query.

http://codeforces.net/blog/entry/7383

Let's call each group is a "bucket"

For each Query, we have to find i j which s[i] = s[j] and L<=i<=j<=R

Each i j has 3 cases :

  1. i and j in bucket, so we can for, just O(sqrt(n))

  2. i in bucket, j out of bucket. Let's call id1[s[j]]=j is the max position of s[j]. So answer is max(id1[s[i]]-i)

  3. i and j out of bucket. Similar, call id2[s[j]]=j is the min position of s[j], so answer is max(id1[s[j]]-id2[s[j]])

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    I_love_PMK can you explain bit more after query sorting step ?

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      10 years ago, # ^ |
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      Let's p = sqrt(n)

      Every query has L <= p is in bucket 1

      p < L <= 2*p is in bucket 2....

      With every query in the same bucket, sort query with increasing of R.

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I have solved it with MO's algorithm + segment tree for keeping track of the maximum value . Complexity is O( (N + M) * ROOT(N) * LOG (N) ) .

Here is the implementation http://ideone.com/YayNX7.

It would be good is someone can tell how to solve without the segment tree in O( (N + M) * ROOT(N) ).

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    Could you please explain how did you solve it??

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      10 years ago, # ^ |
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      Have a look at codechef march challenge problem: qchef , it has a nice and detailed editorial.

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9 years ago, # |
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Here is a editorial to a different problem with a similar solution.

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